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Innovation, ownership and profitability

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Love, James H.
Roper, Stephen
Du, Jun

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This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing plants in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Previous literature suggests that innovators are persistently more profitable than non-innovators, but little is known about how this link is moderated by external versus domestic ownership. We consider the link between innovation and profits separately for indigenous innovators and non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant-level profitability, and find that the determinants of profitability - including innovation and external ownership - vary over the distribution from low to high profitability plants. We find support for the view that innovators and non-innovators have different profitability determinants, and that the profitability of externally-owned plants depends on very different factors to those of indigenously-owned enterprises.

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Volume (Year): 27 (2009)
Issue (Month): 3 (May)
Pages: 424-434
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Keywords: Innovation Ownership Profitability Quantile regression Ireland Northern Ireland;

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